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Duke, The [Opens April 29 in theaters.] Roger Michell's entertaining, factually based, touching, humorous, superbly acted, enjoyable, well-written, star-dotted (James Wilby, Jack Bandeira, Anna Maxwell Martin, Richard McCabe, Aimee Kelly, and Charlotte Spencer), 96-minute, 2020 comedy with a surprise ending in which plucky, curmudgeonly, eccentric, pipe-smoking, aspiring playwright, 60-year-old, retired British taxi driver Kempton Cannon Bunton (Jim Broadbent), who lives on a modest pension with his cleaning lady wife (Dame Helen Mirren) and wannabe shipbuilder son (Fionn Whitehead) in Newcastle upon Tyne, steals Goya's The Portrait of the Duke of Wellington painting worth about £140,000 from the National Gallery in London in 1961 in an attempt to coerce the government to provide license-free television access to elderly people, and after he is arrested, a defense attorney (Matthew Goode) represents him in court.
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